Public health comes second to the drink and tobacco industries? No surprise
It was a bleak day for public health , in the opinion of John Middleton, vice-president of the Faculty of Public Health. Nobody else in the field would disagree with him.
Not only did the government postpone – probably indefinitely – the move to plain cigarette packaging that those on the frontline of the war on smoking say would deter some children from getting a habit that will kill some of them, but it became perfectly clear that next week it will ditch the idea of a minimum price per unit of alcohol, to make stronger drinks more expensive.
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